Richard Linklater, Ellar Coltrane Talk 12 Year project 'Boyhood'

Movie making is always a commitment and as director Richard Linklater says: “You shouldn’t get into it if you lack patience."

But even he must have been stretched working on Boyhood for the last 12 years.

Ellar Coltrane - who portrays Mason - started working on the flick when he was just six and admits that it was a slow realization what it meant to be involved: “There is no way to grasp how long twelve years is when you are six years old.”

Filming took place during a few days each year and the resulting film is in UK cinemas from July 11.